{"id":1433913,"date":"2026-08-31T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fedorov-proposed-to-the-us-to-exchange-experience-in-drones-for-patriot-missiles-details\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:39:19","slug":"fedorov-proposed-to-the-us-to-exchange-experience-in-drones-for-patriot-missiles-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fedorov-proposed-to-the-us-to-exchange-experience-in-drones-for-patriot-missiles-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedorov proposed to the US to exchange experience in drones for Patriot missiles: details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said he is willing to help the United States create an &#8220;army of drones&#8221; in exchange for American Patriot interceptor missiles. According to him, these munitions are necessary for Ukraine to strengthen its air defense in the winter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He said this in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c9d10aeb-163e-46a3-b7ca-376ce6be9f8e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the Financial Times<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Fedorov noted that he is ready to share Ukrainian experience in the field of unmanned technologies with partner countries. He also plans to seek advisory positions in other countries, including France and the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Fedorov recently agreed to work as an advisor to the Italian Minister of Defense. He believes that such cooperation could open up new opportunities for the development of military technologies, particularly given that Italy has air defense systems that Ukraine needs.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I am ready for such an exchange,&#8221; Fedorov said, responding to a proposal for US assistance in creating a &#8220;drone army&#8221; in exchange for Patriot missiles.<\/p>\n<p> The former minister also refused to comment on possible meetings in Washington with representatives of the administration of US President Donald Trump or with SpaceX co-founder Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p> Separately, Fedorov is seeking investment in the United States to create a defense technology fund. According to his plan, the fund will attract Western capital to develop and create companies that will develop new types of weapons for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> In the first stage, the fund plans to focus on 3 areas:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> combat robotics to reduce dependence on humans at the front;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> cheap, high-speed interceptor drones to combat Russian strike drones;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> inexpensive missiles with artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> Fedorov said that the fund could also provide investors with access to the experience and technological developments gained by Ukraine during the war.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fedorov-stav-radnykom-ministra-oborony-italii-chym-vin-zaymatymetsia-na-noviy-posadi\/\">Mikhail Fedorov has accepted the offer of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to become his advisor on defense innovations<\/a> . In his new role, he will help Italy develop modern warfare technologies and adapt the defense sector to new security challenges.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that Mykhailo Fedorov, who supporters credit with developing Ukraine\u2019s unmanned technology and advancing defense sector reforms, was <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-vyrishyv-zvilnyty-fedorova-cherez-konflikt-iz-syrskym-zmi\/\">fired as defense minister<\/a> this month. President Volodymyr Zelensky later offered him other government positions, but Fedorov said <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fedorov-zaiavyv-shcho-pohodytsia-lyshe-na-posadu-ministra-oborony\/\">he would not accept any other government position other than the one he held previously<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said he is willing to help the United States create an &#8220;army of drones&#8221; in exchange for American Patriot interceptor missiles. According to him, these munitions are necessary for Ukraine to strengthen its air defense in the winter. He said this in an interview with the Financial Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1422866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1433913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}